Abstract
Objective: This study compares occupational risk factors and health-related problems between office workers and production workers in the automobile manufacturing industry.BRBRBackground: There are few comparative studies on occupational risk factors and health-related problems in office workers and production workers.BRBRMethod: This study extracted 829 automobile manufacturing workers from the 5th Korean Working Condition Survey data. Among them, 337 were office workers, and 492 were production workers.BRBRResults: Even though work experience was similar, the average working hours per week were higher for production workers than for office workers. However, the average monthly incomes were higher for office workers than for production workers. Production workers were exposed to ergonomic risk factors such as repetitive motion, standing posture, awkward posture, and heavy material handling. Therefore, the rate of complaints of the upper limb, overall fatigue, and low limb was high. On the other hand, office workers had low exposure to risk factors, except for repetitive movements, and had a high rate of complaints of overall fatigue, headache and eyestrain, and upper limb.BRBRConclusion: Production workers in the automobile manufacturing industry are relatively exposed to ergonomic risk factors and have musculoskeletal pains. So efforts and support to improve working conditions are required.BRBRApplication: The results of this study can be used as basic data on work-related risk factors and health-related problems of automobile manufacturing workers.
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